Chapter 8 - THE FIRST LINK TO LAURAHannah requested old county contract records.
Laura’s employee access logs surfaced.
Six weeks before her death, Laura had downloaded billing data for Harrington Family Stability Network.
More than four hundred files.
Residential placements.
Medical reimbursements.
Emergency transport fees.
Behavioral restraint authorizations.
One pattern repeated.
Children with complex medical diagnoses were billed at the highest daily reimbursement rate.
Some had never stayed at Harrington facilities.
Others stayed one night but were billed for weeks.
County losses:
At least $3.8 million.
Laura flagged it.
Then her internal complaint disappeared.
The audit number assigned to her report had been reassigned to an unrelated food-service review.
Who had authority to do that?
Malcolm Pierce.
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Who received most of the money?
Diana Harrington.
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